PORK BARRELING DONE
FROM INSIDE THE CITY OR STATE. CITY GOVS LINING THEIR POCKETS, A NEW TREND!Corporation-Government Greed
and CITY GRAFT? - IS THIS The Future Of America? YEAH, CUZ
IT's GOING ON RIGHT NOW!

By Ted Twietmeyer tedtw@frontiernet.net
10-29-6

Let's look at numerous examples of
greed, and how (besides 9 billion a month spent on a war
we don't need,)GRAFT is
the root of most of today's problems. Google Halliburton, or Brown Root
Kellogg and see Cheney's cronies making a billion a month on Iraq services.
I hear each load of uniforms that gets washed costs the taxpayers a thousand
bucks! But there is other, local graft going on.

* PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY EXAMPLE

There is an emotional, deeply moving video (url below) of local people
fighting
a corporate takeover of their water supply system. This trick was done
under the guise of bringing in "consultants" and "management" in
Highland Park, Michigan to turn the local economy around. A
woman-consultant boasts on camera "I have all the powers of a mayor,"
and that "dictatorial powers" are needed to restore the community.
I
strongly recommend viewing this video, because it has profound
implications for thousands of local governments.

TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN!

To summarize for readers without broadband, local officials in Highland
Park turned their community over to a consulting group. This
"consulting" group takes (skims?) an astounding 90% of local governmentrevenue for themselves. Only 10% is left for government operation.
Criminal to say the least - and perhaps a violation of the RICO Act
(racketeering) or even a form of embezzlement.

Although a financially-strapped community because of the loss of
Chrysler's automotive business, someone needs to file an emergency
class
action suit ASAP to get their government back. Water bills haveincreased 60% and people can't pay them. Now they have attached
waterbills to property taxes, and if you don't pay your water bill you
willlose your property (See video.) Surely this must be illegal,
since it
implies that a water bill is another tax!

More and more people have had their water turned off in Highland
Park. All this brings a new meaning to the term "collection agency."
These
consultants will continue to pillage the community's coffers until
they are
empty. Will they then start selling off the community to other corporations,
perhaps even foreign ones without any vote by the public? Or just pack
up
and quietly leave town, looking for another innocent community in economic
trouble? Clearly their privatization and takeover of a local government
must
be illegal in many ways.

* OCEAN PORTS

What we see Vancouver BC (Canada) may indeed be a harbinger of
things to come. In that city, the Chinese own and operate the ports.
This
effectively makes these harbors foreign soil, almost like that of an
embassy. As such, local police may find it very difficult to monitor
illegal
activities. How can real "security" exist when a henhouse has been
turned
over to the wolves for management? Would anyone have thought just 20
years
ago, that any port in any city, anywhere on the globe, would be controlled
and run by a foreign government? There is now discussion (and possible
quiet
passage of legislation) in Washington about doing the same thing with
NY,
California and other ports as well. It would not be surprising if it's
already been passed as legal.

* CORPORATIONS

All corporations exist for just one purpose: The greed of the
shareholders. Those of us who have worked in business at various levels
know
there are no emotions, no compassion. No kindness, no love, no
consideration. There is only pure logic and the bottom line. What's
the
difference between a corporation and scum-sucking, bottom-feeding Carp?
Nothing. Corporations easily bring out the worst in everyone working
within
them. Any employee of a corporation is always focused on personal promotion,
benefits and salary increases.

Employees don't care where the money comes from, as long as they get
more. Often they will sell their soul to get ahead and make co-workers
look
bad if required. Everyone and everything to them is a stepping stone,
and
there are no rules. These people have Greed Disease (GD) but go untreated.
A
3,000 square foot home, three cars, an annual trip to Europe (and of
course
$50,000 in credit card debt) isn't enough for those with GD. They want
more.
More. More. More. These are often the very same people that cut you
off on
the highway, or illegally take your right of way at a traffic light.
They
are blind to disease and poverty - until these curses come knocking
at their
door. Then they are the first to scream "That's not fair. I didn't
deserve
it!"

* OIL

Our world isn't just filled with hate, hunger and poverty. This is a
world perhaps filled with more greedy people than those who are
compassionate. If that wasn't the case, then we wouldn't see organizations
in the media begging for people to make a monthly commitment to feed
just
one starving child. The NWO has a simple grand plan: To mold and shape
the
entire world into a new corporate welfare state, controlling all freedom,
housing, food and water. You will never hear from these weasels openly
in
the media - until they feel their goals have been safely met.

By re-engineering the world, they will force everyone to seek out a
pre-designated corporate teet to suck on. Again, greed is the order
of the
day. When you're as filthy rich as the NWO people are, you can buy
anything
you want. So what's left for excitement? Total control of the masses.
Perhaps the Knights Templar are still around - they just have a different
name and purpose. But greed is still greed, regardless of the name
of an
organization.

In Michigan, we see a perfect microcosm of things to come. States
all across America (and probably in other countries) are selling off
bridges
and highways to private and public companies. That way, the maintenance
and
rebuilding of this infrastructure is someone else's problem. Toll roads
will
soon be everywhere on Interstate highways and freeways, as corporations
don't want to miss out plunging their greedy nit-pickers into the pockets
of
out of state travelers just passing through. What chicken-$hit way
to solve
a problem! The end result? More people will lose state jobs which have
salaries that people can live off, while road-work will be done with
the
cheapest materials using minimum wage help. This may sound odd, but
there
really IS a skill to fixing a pothole right. The skill comes in doing
it
right the first time - so it isn't an even larger pothole in just a
few
months. Potholes may seem minor, but unfixed potholes require expensive,
multi-million paving jobs when the pavement damage is too extensive.

* LABOR

Some years ago, some clever MBA types were desperate to make their
companies look better because of executive and shareholder pressure
(greed.)
These people at the major corporations streamlined manufacturing,
distribution and sales. All the big corporations did this to improve
their
stock value. Two companies selling the same product are in competition,
and
executives were pressured by shareholders (the greed factor again.)
So what
could they do to top that? Robots and new production machinery were
brought
in and used wherever possible, so more people could be laid off. But
still
that wasn't enough, since a certain minimum number of people are required
to
run and maintain any factory. So what did they do?

* SLASHED WAGES

These egomaniacs with no regard for human life, quickly drove wages
to the bottom. Strikes began when wages didn't increase to meet a reasonable
living standard. And when a "deal" between a union and corporation
couldn't
be worked out? The company simply closed the plant and opened another
one
somewhere else without a union, setting wages at minimum wage. Then
they
began opening manufacturing plants in China, who freely opened their
doors
to the west. We owe so much to president Nixon for taking the hinges
and
latches off those doors.

And what of existing labor laws that protect workers here in
America? These are all but gone. A friend of mine (a lawyer, believe
it or
not) made a good living years ago specializing in labor law and protecting
employees. But back in 1985, he told me "labor laws are all but gone.
Too
few people had a case anymore." Now he defends DUI and DWI drivers
almost
exclusively. Corporate greed has yet won again by quietly watering
down and
even dropping many labor laws to favor corporations, all through the
effective use of lobbyists.

Greed is a prime motivator for the oil mess we're in now, and for
many of the problems the world has. About thirty years ago, big cars
with V8
engines were called "gas pigs." The culture and media of that day encouraged
people to scoff at those who owned one. Compact cars were "in." No
one even
cared that those first compact import cars were built like crap, and
were
far more unreliable than an American car.

* BIGGER VEHICLES WITH GAS PRICES RISINGBut in the mid 1980's, SUVs and custom vans became popular again.
And again, people were driving a new version of a "gas pig." The only
difference is that the new gas pigs have a different shape than the
old gas
pigs ("A rose by any other name...) Yet any good mechanic or knowledgeable
driver will tell you that what the actual miles per gallon a new vehicle's
sticker states, and what it actually gets, are two very different things.
Many owners will tell you they drive them because "it makes them feel
safe."

Numerous controlled crash tests have shown how easily these vehicles
roll over because many are top heavy. A steering wheel or dashboard
airbag
does little to stop you from using your head as a battering ram for
a side
window in a crash. A blow to the temple (side of the head) is also
an easy
way to die. But we are supposed to believe that greed and pride are
far more
important than family safety. And what do you see in most vans and
SUVs on
the road? Just one passenger!

And of course it takes massive amounts of oil and gas to run all
these vehicles. Someone in government once said, "Look at the cars
people
drive today. They don't care where the oil and gasoline comes from,
just as
long as they can buy it."

* BASIC GREED AND SURVIVAL

A good example of this is being in a grocery store when a blizzard
is starting. People frantically buy almost all food in sight. They
will
squabble with each other over who had their fingers on the last loaf
of
bread first. I have seen two women do this when both reached for the
last
loaf of bread: One said, "It's mine!" The other one yelled back, "But
I saw
it first!" and they argued briefly until one of them gave in.

Now imagine this same scene where government structure crashes - and
everyone rushes into every grocery store knowing that this isn't just
a
temporary snowstorm, but a serious calamity that will last for years.
That
will turn into sporadic gunfights and brawls over the last products
of
ANYTHING on the shelves - including toilet paper. Hence, martial law
(and
rationing) will be conveniently declared just before this crash comes.

CONCLUSION

What we see happening everywhere now is personal and corporate
greed. Corporations can program the masses through clever marketing
to
virtually force them to buy their product. And even make them think
it's not
possible to live without it. The cell phone is a perfect example. It
doesn't
matter what the product is or even it's something no one needs -
corporations are experts at pushing the public's hot buttons. Marketing
has
been turned into a specialized science. Teams of psychologists work
with
marketing people to make you buy some worthless product you've lived
without
your entire life, you'll never need and probably don't even want.

This has created the blue chip companies we all know as household
words today, and clearly illustrates the average person is just plain
stupid
and will do whatever they're told to do, when insulted sufficiently
to do
so. In thousands of churches on Sunday mornings, a minister rants for
half
an hour, telling his congregation they're all weak, damned and worthless
sinners. Then he has unpaid droids pass an offering plate to pay for
the
privilege of being hammered to hell by his mouth. This is yet another
good
example of stupidity and the beaten animal syndrome!

Will God will have any compassion on that greedy man in the robe
with the big mouth, when that same man stands before Him one day? Highly
educated men and women - doctors, lawyers, dentists, and surgeons are
all
sitting out there in church, in that beaten animal crowd. On Monday
morning
these same professionals all return to their full-time jobs as greed
masters.

The lawyers, fresh from church and Sunday school just 24 hours
earlier, will go back to their work suing innocent hard working people,
taking away people's homes, cars and money. They revel in this assuring
themselves in their simple minds, "Boy it's great to be a Christian!
I'll be
forgiven of this next Sunday all over again!" Their day of reckoning
will
come, too. What goes around, comes around. It doesn't require common
sense,
awareness or intelligence to earn a PhD. What it mainly requires is
money
and the ability to tolerate many years of school. You can have 5 PhDs
and
still comfortably sit in a pew being hammered by a mouth attached to
an
amplifier. It's amazing how greed is easily justified by a couple hours
of
church each week.

Corporate takeover of governments and infrastructure, will define
the end of the Republic as we know it.

WHAT THE BIBLE TELLS US

The Good Book tells us that greed is one of the seven deadly sins.
Today we can see just how true that is with hundreds of thousands of
American and Iraqi lives actually lost to oil and not real terror,
in just
the last few years. Will these deaths total into the millions? Don't
doubt
it for a minute. And likewise, those billions lost to graft by war
services?
It'll clean out the Gov to the extent that your PENSIONS and health
care are not there, later, when you need it.